Parchers Resort
Travel Blogs from Bishop
Eastern Sierra Escapades
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We decided to take a variation about 100ft to the right to avoid the traffic jam, but still ran into a family of four on our way up and had to build extra belays so as not to interfere ...
On the road again
... the water was COLD though. We were looking forward to showers in our camp site to wash all the salt and calcium off us, as we had all turned very white and crusty :) but when we arrived, despite having to pay $1 for the showers, they were stone cold. I got undressed, got my stuff all ready to wash the crustiness out of my hair, then found I'd lost my shower token! so back I went to buy another one. Mentioned to the office that no one could get a ...
Yosemite National Park
... Amerikaner sind zahlreich vertreten. Vor allem für Grossstädter aus den beiden Metropolen LA und SF ist Yosemite eines der beliebtesten „Naherholungsgebiete". Jedoch stellt zunehmender Stau auf den Straßen des Parks ein immer grösseres Problem dar. Derzeit wird sogar ein Fahrverbot für Tagestouristen geprüft, welche alternativ mit einem Shuttlebus umherkutschiert würden.
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The First Step
... backdropped by huge granite mountains. The trail skirted the perimeter of the meadow before ending at the base of the southern mountains. Here the trail was flanked with massive boulders and riddled with smaller ones that often required climbing. The rocks were visible reminders that glaciers had once carved this canyon, plucking these rocks out of the mountains as they advanced and depositing them as they melted.
It was late afternoon. There was one more spot ...
I'm going back to Cali
As I am driving up to my parents house I see a strange truck in the driveway. Then I see my brother looking at me through the kitchen window, about 10 seconds earlier or later and we would have kept the visit a surprise. Went snowshoeing up by North Lake. Then rushed off to Phoenix to catch a flight to WA for work. ...